Anybody ever put a TurboII aircleaner on a 66 like this tractors has

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Location:I live in south central Kentucky and sell used farm machinery for a living

Interests:I own a restored 1970 Massey Ferguson 1130 and tractors my family use to own over the years: 1066 white cab with duals, 806 with narrow front end, 706 german diesel with turbo, 686, 585, 560, 560 with duals and a boom lift, SM, M, SC and a brand new 1977 International 1700 with rollback bed and a 85 acre tobacco and cattle farm

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Interests:Farm 1600 acres,milk 700 cows run mainly RED(gotta have a few others to make you appreciate the red ones even more)bought the '46 Farmall A in family since '52 when I was 17. Currently have A, C, Super C,230, M, 400,450 and an F30 adopted from my Wife's side of the family. Wish I had bought the 450 i grew up with, hindsight is 2020

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Interests:Farm 1600 acres,milk 700 cows run mainly RED(gotta have a few others to make you appreciate the red ones even more)bought the '46 Farmall A in family since '52 when I was 17. Currently have A, C, Super C,230, M, 400,450 and an F30 adopted from my Wife's side of the family. Wish I had bought the 450 i grew up with, hindsight is 2020

I had a R & W pre aspirator pre cleaner on my 1066 and 1086. Be sure to just cut a round hole in the hood as that is what i did on my 1066 but the 1086 the dealer installed it and they used the drawing and cut clear to the bend and it made the hood a lot weaker. Years later when i quit using the 1086 on the hay wagon the hood broke and i removed the pre cleaner as it was not used in as much dirt as before.

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I might be alone here but I think it is hard to beat the original precleaner baffle under the hood. If you are having premature filter ACTUAL restrictions, you might want to check to see that the baffle is actually sealing all the way around the sides and top edge. Caulking works good to seal them. Sooooooooooooo many air cleaners are taken out and banged around to get the dirt out when they aren't even close to restricting the air flow. IH went through great pains to come up with a simple precleaner and it works. Does the restriction indicator on the dash work and actually show restriction. Remember, a dry air filter keeps on filtering even finer when it starts to get dirty unlike the oil bath that start letting dirt work it's way through. Very seldom see a dusted engine with that dual air cleaner set up where is was common on the older tractors and when you so see it the normal cause is from hoses between air cleaner and engine.

The exhaust aspirator extends the filter life even more on the higher horse power turbo charged engines.

Sooooooooooooo many air cleaners are taken out and banged around to get the dirt out when they aren't even close to restricting the air flow. IH went through great pains to come up with a simple precleaner and it works.

That's why they didn't have an access panel for the air filter on the 66 and later tractors. People were taking them out too often and hitting them on tires to clean them.

I have 2 tractors with those precleaners on them (966 and 1066)and would take them off if they didn't have a hole in the hood to patch.

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Interests:Farm 1600 acres,milk 700 cows run mainly RED(gotta have a few others to make you appreciate the red ones even more)bought the '46 Farmall A in family since '52 when I was 17. Currently have A, C, Super C,230, M, 400,450 and an F30 adopted from my Wife's side of the family. Wish I had bought the 450 i grew up with, hindsight is 2020

Some axx hole put one of those on the Black Stripe 1066 I bought a few years ago. Screwed up a perfect hood and center rib putting it on. Looks like crap. Ruined the sheet metal. I cant tell one bit of difference in maintenance. If someone is too lazy to change the air filter and oil in your tractor, you probably should not own one.

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They do a lot to extend filter life I had a customer who would operate in what I will admit is extremely dusty condition and his 1466 would be smoking excessively in 2 days if he did not clean the air filter afterwards he could go about a week. It saved him a lot of money and I believe wear on the engine. The baffle is really effective for a lot of operations but I would install one right away if I was operating in tough conditions it may not look original but they work . It only took IH another 7 years or so to make an aspirated air cleaner optional much less standard equip. They sold a lot of extra filters in that time. Depending on your use you may not see much difference but it will do more for the tractor than a chrome stack will.

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Anybody remember the original baffle the 7 and 806 came out with. Up in the dirtiest corner of the whole front end. Just a little piece of tin that let all the air supply to engine go in largely unaffected by the air blast of fan. Early filter plugging was a problem and we only had single filter. IH sent out a bulletin where the improved baffle could be installed and I put on many. BUT, they sent a SKINNY too short piece of weather stripping along to seal the top and sides of the baffle. Well, some didn't fit too well and they still took on a lot of dirt. Took me a while to figure just calk the darn thing and be done with it. My brother in law, who could have trouble with anything, could run the whole season then. That baffle has to seal all the way around top and two sides for maximum efficiency. Many have air gaps or even bent out of shape. Of course, a turbo equipped engine uses a lot more air so results will vary. I also doubt if many actually check the restriction with a water mamometer to see what it actually is. A little smoked up inner filter can cause a lot of restriction that is blamed onto dirt in the outer filter.

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Some axx hole put one of those on the Black Stripe 1066 I bought a few years ago. Screwed up a perfect hood and center rib putting it on. Looks like crap. Ruined the sheet metal. I cant tell one bit of difference in maintenance. If someone is too lazy to change the air filter and oil in your tractor, you probably should not own one.

Have them on several tractors and they are worth the money. I have operated in dusty conditions and would have to clean filters twice a day when vac grain. It has nothing to do with being lazy. It has to do with doing a job a the best way. Think of the time it take to remove and install the hood twice a day. Along with the extra fuel I would burn with a dirty filter and extra wear on engine.

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Not near as many comments about IH hacking a big old hole in the hood to hang that big old Donaldson precleaner on the turboed 56 and 06 tractors. They knew the intake system was border line back then. There was an article in REDPOWER years back about daily cleaning the air filters on the experimental 1206s written by a former Hinsdale employee. IH tried to correct it on the 66 series with bigger diameter filters and they tried 2 different brands of filter housings. IF you do not have dusty conditions you probably would not gain much but in real dusty work its either that or put wing nuts on the hood bolts.

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I'm glad you guys like them but I still see no need for them. That fan sucking the air into the front of the radiator and baffle making that dirt turn 90 degrees at full blast to get to the air cleaner is in my book more efficient than those up in the dirt precleaners. There was a problem with 06 and 56 series not having large enough hose from pre cleaner to air cleaner but that was addressed on the 66 series. That hose was pretty flat and would collapse part way or all the way. The right size tin can inside of it took care of that. The ones I didn't like was the 50 series with the top air flow which worked great in some places but terrible in other applications.